The U.S. Exit From the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty Has Fueled a New Arms Race

[Highmark]

Happened in 2002 but people seem to forget.  But but but Highmark....they are just defensive systems.   NOTHING the military does is 100% defensive. 

So what did the US do then.   Place AEGIS missile systems in Poland and Romania.  

Got to love the America is never wrong propaganda many on here have fallen for. 

Aegis Ashore[edit]

The U.S., Romania and Poland have deployed the land based Aegis BMD. Test installation was built at the US Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii in 2000s. A site in Deveselu, Romania is operational since 2016, while a site at Redzikowo, Poland will become operational in 2022.^[40][41] Though Japan intended to deploy two sites which would use an AN/SPY-7 AESA radar, these plans were cancelled in 2020. Possible deployments of Aegis Ashore include US naval base at Guam.^[15]

https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/12/13/u.s.-exit-from-anti-ballistic-missile-treaty-has-fueled-new-arms-race-pub-85977

Twenty years ago today, then­-president George W. Bush announced that the United States would withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty. This cornerstone of the Cold War arms control regime, signed in 1972, sought to cap the arms race by limiting homeland missile defenses, thus reducing pressures on the superpowers to build more nuclear weapons. Bush, however, claimed that the treaty had outlived its purpose, since “the hostility that once led both our countries to keep thousands of nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert” had died alongside the Soviet Union. Instead, three months after September 11, 2001, he argued that the treaty was hindering the United States from protecting itself against “terrorists” and “rogue states.”

It’s clear now that withdrawing was an epic mistake. The United States’ homeland missile defenses are porous; why else would Washington worry that North Korea is deploying intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs)? Yet those defenses have succeeded in fueling arms races with Russia, whose hostility toward the United States is alive and well, and now with China too. This experience should prompt Washington to try to negotiate new limits on missile defenses, and it provides a cautionary tale about the very real costs of withdrawing from international agreements.

 

 

The U.S. Exit From the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty Has Fueled a New Arms Race

Edited February 28 by Highmark

[ActionfigureJoe]

Aegis is a defensive weapon system. It’s what’s being used in the Red Sea to knock down Houthi missiles.